By the end of the course students will: develop an understanding of the reciprocal relations between the spatial organization of urban development and locational, economic, and political dynamics and processes; learn the major historical antecedents of urban development and urbanization and learn the key concepts; develop a curiosity to establish the relationship between the current urban form and processes of urbanization that may lead to it; develop a curiosity to analyze urbanization issues in Turkey; develop skills to: analyze the development and urbanization dynamics of cities; collect data in relation to a given problem and search for relevant literature; link the knowledge accumulated by reading the literature to the everyday experiences and observations in urban space.